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...Harvard is absolutely out-of-touch," said Herb B. Berkowitz, vice president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think-tank, "They're out-of-touch with ordinary people who get up in the morning at 5 a.m. and work long hours in order to put food on the table. Harvard is an elitist institution...
Uneasiness about the government's relationshipwith Harvard also resulted in the severing ofHarvard's official ties with the CambridgeProject, a federally funded think-tank...
...nation's two-war strategy is wrong, at least in light of expected funding levels. "The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high budget," says Pentagon cost analyst Franklin Spinney. A study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, concludes that projected spending is "incapable of meeting" the two-war requirement...
...threat to the nation's beleaguered space program surfaced from an unexpected quarter this week when NASA officials announced that woodpeckers had been drilling holes in the insulation on Discovery's external fuel tank. The holes could jeopardize a shuttle launch scheduled for June 8. Mission managers are assessing the damage, but there is no word on how they plan to protect Discovery from fresh assaults by hungry yellow-shafted northern flickers...
Shawn Nelson, an unemployed plumber and Army veteran, stole a National Guard tank and steamrolled down San Diego streets, plowing over cars and utility poles. Police shot and killed him after he refused to surrender and instead tried to roll the tank off a concrete freeway divider...